How can reality be caught and tamed? Two smart children attempt to do so bychallenging a “toilet witch.” Seungkyu Jung deploys nine camaras in MANIPULATION (DIGITALEGESPENSTER 2) in order to monitor a house and the behavior within, while Ziming Peng prefersto disappear into virtual worlds. Chao Wu turns to the sun, that fixed star that connects usall and without whose rays nothing would be “real.” And in Noddy Werner’s BINGO, the kitchenis cramped and cut-off: a phone call is the only connection to the outside world, and itreveals the unreality of the pandemic. There is something in this world that has been broken. Yet, nevertheless, everything continues as usual – and there is no off-switch. Or is there?(Ascan Breuer)
There is something ghostly about modern technologies. Based on a dream, THERE IS NO OFF SWITCH revolves around themes such as surveillance, paranoia and statistics. The device can be switched off, but the network never sleeps.… >>>
How can you watch the sun? Not with your eyes, but Chao Wu finds numerous other ways: WATCH THE SUN is a lightshow that consistently focuses on the sun, however and wherever it shines - be it here, around the world or in the computer.… >>>
Nine cameras silently observe what goes on in a house. We see a man enter the garden. But do the cameras agree on what happens next? Manipulation (Digital Ghosts 2) raises questions about transparency in digital society.… >>>
Ziming Peng makes puppets dance and fall in virtual spaces.… >>>
An old television blares in a dark kitchen hung with mourning ribbons. A person whose head is out of frame is frying up an egg. A phone call breaks the silence and things get animalistic. Snapshot of a long-distance relationship in times of a pandemic.… >>>
JEIJAY begins where most love stories end: Two people, trying to suppress the slow but inexorable deterioration of their relationship, are trapped in the isolation of their small flat. More and more, the facade of their love life crumbles.… >>>
An exploration of Bolex material supported by music by Ricarda Gumprich.… >>>
AFTER THE OTHERS is about a person who is unaware of himself. Without knowing it, he has allowed the goals and dreams of others to become his own. But how can the goals of others be achieved?… >>>
Two different yet similar situations: Loudly screeching birds harass the female-defined protagonists who live in harmony with themselves and nature. In the end, the birds shut up. A feminist retelling of an old "Grimm's fairy tale".… >>>
Two children on La Réunion are confined to the house with their alcoholic mother because of a cyclone. They wage a battle with the "toilet witch" to escape the confinement and save their mother.… >>>